Putin fumes at underlings about ‘second’ Crimea bridge attack

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Russian President Vladimir Putin sent subordinates scrambling to explain their failure to protect the Crimea bridge from Ukraine’s forces, which policymakers in Kyiv celebrated as “a blow” to the strategic and symbolic span linking Russia’s mainland to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula.

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